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The Congress, which won resounding victories in the Punjab and Uttaranchal assembly election, on Sunday also took the honours in the by-election to six Lok Sabha and seven assembly constituencies, winning seven of them.
The party, however, tasted defeat in Karnataka, where former prime minister H D Deve Gowda wrested the Kanakapura parliamentary seat from it.
The Samajwadi Party retained the Mirzapur Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, which fell vacant following the assassination of bandit-turned-MP Phoolan Devi last year.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazagham chief J Jayalalithaa won the Andipatti assembly seat in Tamil Nadu by 41,200 votes.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi romped home in the Rajkot-II assembly seat, but his Bharatiya Janata Party lost two of the three assembly by-elections in the state to the Congress.
The most remarkable Congress victory in the by-election was that of Jyotiraditya Scindia from the Guna parliamentary constituency. He defeated BJP candidate Deshraj Singh Yadav by a record 400,000 votes. Jyotiraditya's father Madhavrao Scindia held the seat till his death in an air crash last September.
The Congress retained the Kaliabor Lok Sabha constituency in Assam when Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's younger brother Deep Gogoi won the seat by 168,140 votes.
PTI
